Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (charlesandnessa @ Feb 13 2008, 08:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Crikey! @ Feb 13 2008, 06:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Good morning friends. yay coffee and humpday, what a combination! Good morning! I woke up sick as a dog... my husband had this cold last week and I was feeling pretty smug that it hadn't hit me. Then it hit me hard this morning. Yuk! Interesting story from when I was in the waiting room of the dealership having my car serviced yesterday: There was a man sitting across from me with his wife. He asked about 3 or 4 other people sitting near him if they were republican or democrat (primaries were here yesterday) Everyone he asked said they were voting for Obama. Anyway, I'm just flipping through a magazine trying to mind my own business when I hear Him: Excuse me miss? I look up Him: Are you a republican or a democrat? Me: Oh I can't vote this is when it got funny His Wife: Oh #### me too! Oh I can't vote neither! Felony charges. Incarcerated. Where were you in prison at? Me: OH NO no no no! I can't vote because I'm Canadian His Wife: Oh She looked very disappointed. The waiting room was full and I could hear snickering from every corner Him: You don't got no accent or nothin. Don't y'all talk with some funny accent? Me: Nope. Not really. We pretty much talk like Americans. At that point I got up to see what was taking so long with my car and tried to get out of there. My car wound up taking forever and I was almost late for my biometrics appointment.	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-02-13 09:17:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (charlesandnessa @ Feb 12 2008, 08:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> bump. where's the coffee? bump. I'm up early today so here you go Timbits too!!	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-02-12 08:48:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Good morning!!	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-02-11 08:44:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Thanks guys! It totally made our day! Going to get ready for superbowl party! Have a great day!!	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-02-02 14:29:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	I love that American delivers mail on Saturdays!! I got my ASC Appointment notice for biometrics for my EAD!!! I only applied like 8 days ago!	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-02-02 11:19:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (Len_and_Bren @ Feb 1 2008, 04:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> WOOOHOOOOOOO Do you guys like my new avatar or WHAT??????????????? I was gonna say - that alien love is hot! QUOTE (Krikit @ Feb 2 2008, 09:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (KarenCee @ Feb 2 2008, 09:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> *yawn* G'morning...gotta go find some coffee...cheesecake for brekkie maybe *yawn* I had cheesecake for breffrus once. I had a girls weekend and we never got around to eating the cheesecake. So we all had some for breffrus the next morning. Good times. This morning I will make some cranberry blueberry muffins. The batter's in the fridge just waiting for me to scoop it into the muffin tins. But I'm not hungry yet so it can wait. It's a sunny day today! :energetic: Good morning!! Oh that all sounds so yummy and I'd love to bake - but my husband is bent on watching his weight so I have to be supportive and make a light breakfast	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-02-02 11:16:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (SpiritAlight @ Jan 30 2008, 12:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (rhymeswithcandi @ Jan 30 2008, 01:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (SpiritAlight @ Jan 30 2008, 10:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OH THE COLD!!! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......... I should go over to The Vent thread. I haven't been this cold since my days of youth with the exception of some boat deliveries in the Winter. I have been trying to convince my sweetie that living in this climate is inhumane. Think it'll work?? Oh I am missing Vancouver....sigh...part of it is the climate! I feel your pain! It's not too cold here today but it has been pretty cold and I'm a lousy excuse for a Canadian - I'm totally allergic to the cold. We're moving to California... I can't WAIT! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! (Envy sets in...snif snif...) He's from California so I didn't have to sell him on the idea... the only sad part about it is that I'll be so far away from my family in Ontario. It's not a hard sell though - great economy, lower cost of living (where we're moving anyway).	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-30 12:44:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (SpiritAlight @ Jan 30 2008, 10:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OH THE COLD!!! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......... I should go over to The Vent thread. I haven't been this cold since my days of youth with the exception of some boat deliveries in the Winter. I have been trying to convince my sweetie that living in this climate is inhumane. Think it'll work?? Oh I am missing Vancouver....sigh...part of it is the climate! I feel your pain! It's not too cold here today but it has been pretty cold and I'm a lousy excuse for a Canadian - I'm totally allergic to the cold. We're moving to California... I can't WAIT!	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-30 12:34:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (~Laura and Nick~ @ Jan 30 2008, 11:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Went to the Doctor this morning. He says I'm one healthy woman. Got all my vaccine's up to date completely..I'm ready to go! WOO HOO! Yaaaaaay!	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-30 12:32:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (trailmix @ Jan 23 2008, 06:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Krikit @ Jan 23 2008, 03:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Emancipation @ Jan 23 2008, 03:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Okay.. so i just bought a Cadbury Fruit & nut bar (made by Hershey here in the US).. AND .. it's the best US chocolate I've had since moving here.. mmmmmmm fruit & nuts... mmmmmm Traitor! Deserter! Defector! Hershey's Cadbury bars are nothing but cocoa dust glued together with wax! All gritty and blech. This is your first step on the road to becoming an American. The next thing you'll have us believe is that the Heinz Ketchup goes great on American KD. It's a sad sad day. I missed the part where emancipation said it was the hershey one Love the kick can... American KD - blah	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-23 19:39:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (Krikit @ Jan 23 2008, 02:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (rhymeswithcandi @ Jan 23 2008, 02:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (trailmix @ Jan 23 2008, 02:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Why did Peter Frampton ever cut his hair? Probably 'cause he was getting more bald and didn't want to look like Michael Bolton? That is hilarious because I was gonna say that too! Or Kim Mitchell: HAHAHA!! Kim Mitchell! HA! OH everyone here is Canadian so I can tell this story - HILARIOUS. So, about 5 years ago or so, I'm in Muskoka at a friends' cottage. He had a HUGE place and there were about 50-60 people over... I guess it was a party. We were being pretty loud but it was May long weekend so everyone is loud in Muskoka at that time. There's a knock at the door... he must have been at the door for several minutes knocking. One of my friends answers the door and it's friggen Kim Mitchell sans hat I guess he was renting the cottage next door. Kim: Yea hey can you guys keep it down? Some of us are trying to relax here. Friend: Oh wow. Sorry... we'll turn the music down. Kim: No it's not just the music, you guys are making too much noise. (he was really really p*ssy at this point) Friend: sure ok Kim Mitchell turns around and starts walking down the steps and my friend says "Is that the Patio Lanterns dude?" I swear, it was like we'd all rehearsed it... all at the same time we all start singing "Patio Lanterns..." I don't think Mr. Mitchell was impressed. QUOTE (trailmix @ Jan 23 2008, 03:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Krikit @ Jan 23 2008, 12:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Okay, I've done enough messing around here. I've got to go and get some real work done. Too bad we weren't paid for our time on VJ. (Though I believe some of us are.) Ciao! I just went and vacuumed and dusted, that's enough real work for now. I have been playing world of warcraft for the last week, decided to give it a try....i like it! qu'est-ce que c'est world of warcraft? Does anyone watch the View? This is annoying me right now... http://www.babble.co...te/default.aspx	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-23 15:23:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (Emancipation @ Jan 23 2008, 02:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (rhymeswithcandi @ Jan 23 2008, 02:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh *tear* that is so sad! I would have had nightmares too. I always feel so bad for little animals that get lost on the road and hit. I drive my husband to work in DC and there are always deer on the roads... they get all lost like "huh, what is this?" It's the weirdest thing - like imagine a bunch of deer running through Toronto. We saw a deer get hit in Pentagon city the other day tres tres sad. On one of our recent trips to Altanta we saw a baby deer on the side of the road RIGHT next to the pavement drinking out of a puddle.. i was sooooooo upset.. i didn't know what to do.. if you had stopped to try to shoo him out of the way - he'd probably have jumped right into highway traffic.. UGH.. he was soooo little.. like the size of a medium sized dog.. UGH That makes me so sad. I would have done the same thing... I wonder where his Momma was	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-23 14:38:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (trailmix @ Jan 23 2008, 02:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Why did Peter Frampton ever cut his hair? Probably 'cause he was getting more bald and didn't want to look like Michael Bolton?	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-23 14:29:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (Krikit @ Jan 23 2008, 01:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Emancipation @ Jan 23 2008, 01:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Did I tell you guys that hubby hit a bunny with the car on the way home last night?? He tried everything he could to avoid it.. he really did.. the poor bunny zigged when he should have zagged.. I had nightmares last night.. the image and the sound.. *thunk* UGH. AWWWWWW. I remember the "thunk" sound when my Dad hit a bunny on PEI once. I was devastated and started bawling. Poor bunny. Oh *tear* that is so sad! I would have had nightmares too. I always feel so bad for little animals that get lost on the road and hit. I drive my husband to work in DC and there are always deer on the roads... they get all lost like "huh, what is this?" It's the weirdest thing - like imagine a bunch of deer running through Toronto. We saw a deer get hit in Pentagon city the other day tres tres sad.	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-23 14:01:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (derekkj @ Jan 22 2008, 01:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (IR5FORMUMSIE @ Jan 21 2008, 09:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (trailmix @ Jan 21 2008, 09:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ok you're in, no preliminary visas here so nessa is in too. easy. Only one question before Charles reaches the Don Cherry level of Canuckdom. Explain any two of the following (most Canucks don't know these so if you don't get it maybe some of my fellow Canuckleheads will help): 1. Polar Sea and/or Manhattan 2. Dammit, Les, you pissed on my rug! 3. Manicouagan Fu**-You Call (this one's too easy) *wondering how many people are going to answer one of these or all three?* 1. Canada regards the Passage as lying within its territorial waters, while other nations (especially the United States) regard it as an international waterway. The result is a long-simmering dispute between Canada and the U.S. on the question of Canadian sovereignty. Canadians were incensed when Americans drove the reinforced oil tanker Manhattan through the Northwest Passage in 1969, followed by the icebreaker Polar Sea in 1985, both without asking for Canadian permission. In 1970, the Canadian government enacted the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, which asserts Canadian regulatory control over pollution within a 100-mile zone. In response, the Americans in 1970 stated, “We cannot accept the assertion of a Canadian claim that the Arctic waters are internal waters of Canada.... Such acceptance would jeopardize the freedom of navigation essential for United States naval activities worldwide.” A compromise of sorts was reached in 1988, by an agreement on “Arctic Cooperation,” which pledges that voyages of American icebreakers “will be undertaken with the consent of the Government of Canada.” However the agreement did not alter either country’s basic legal position. In January 2006 David Wilkins, the American ambassador to Canada, said his government opposes Stephen Harper's proposed plan to deploy military icebreakers in the Arctic to detect interlopers and assert Canadian sovereignty over those waters. http://en.citizendiu...rthwest_Passage 2. While in office, Pearson resisted U.S. pressure to enter the Vietnam War. Pearson spoke at Temple University in Philadelphia on April 2, 1965, while visiting the United States, and voiced his support for a negotiated settlement to the Vietnam War. When he visited U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson the next day, Johnson strongly berated Pearson. According to Canadian legend, Johnson grabbed Pearson by the lapels, shook him, and shouted "Dammit, Les, you pissed on my rug!" Pearson later recounted that the meeting was acrimonious, but insisted the two parted cordially. After this incident, LBJ and Pearson did have further contacts, including two further meetings together, both times in Canada. (Canadians most remember the Pearson years as a time Canada-U.S. relations greatly improved.) http://www.canadianc...B.-Pearson.html 3. ? I am obviously bored at work and did a bit of googling... Nice one! I had no idea on #1. All I know about #3 is that Lake Manicouagan is gorgeous.	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-22 16:33:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (trailmix @ Jan 22 2008, 01:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (rhymeswithcandi @ Jan 22 2008, 11:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You sound crafty! The first Christmas my husband and I spent together was in Cyprus. I was going home for Christmas and he had to stay there for work. I felt bad for him 'cause he was away from family and friends at Christmas so I got him a stocking and filled it with a ton of goodies and stitched his name on it. It was a snowman stocking. This Christmas (2 years later) my MIL bought me a snowman stocking very similar and I just stitched my name in it last week. Now we have matching ones Actually i'm not, but probably have the potential to be? I bought the scrapbooking kit from the shopping channel, tried to do 1 page, no-go. The leather albums I bought at costco to do wonderful photo albums are still in the original box and my roll of cross stitching fabric is in a bag in the closet. I LOVE scrapbooking. I just started one of my honeymoon.	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-22 16:31:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (trailmix @ Jan 22 2008, 12:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Krikit @ Jan 22 2008, 10:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ohhh, Mandi But I sent you away Ohhh, Mandi I almost named my daugher Mandi. But my husband nixed that and now she's called Shannon. That's quite a jump - Mandi to Shannon! When my Sister was having her second child we had decided it was a girl and her name was going to be Chelsea. At the time I was in to cross-stitching so I did these reallllllly cute xmas stockings for Chelsea and my other niece. Well, needless to say, Chelsea did not appear - but my wonderful nephew did. So I took the stocking to work (as he was born on Dec 7th and I was in NZ) and ripped Chelsea's name from the stocking and put his in. The manager did walk in too - he just looked at me - I told him what I was doing and he was good with that - he was a great guy - I'm sure he still is! Just thought I would share that lovely story Oh and by mistake, at some point, my BIL threw the stockings away by mistake. You sound crafty! The first Christmas my husband and I spent together was in Cyprus. I was going home for Christmas and he had to stay there for work. I felt bad for him 'cause he was away from family and friends at Christmas so I got him a stocking and filled it with a ton of goodies and stitched his name on it. It was a snowman stocking. This Christmas (2 years later) my MIL bought me a snowman stocking very similar and I just stitched my name in it last week. Now we have matching ones	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-22 13:18:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (daisy16 @ Jan 22 2008, 12:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (IR5FORMUMSIE @ Jan 21 2008, 09:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (trailmix @ Jan 21 2008, 09:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ok you're in, no preliminary visas here so nessa is in too. easy. Only one question before Charles reaches the Don Cherry level of Canuckdom. Explain any two of the following (most Canucks don't know these so if you don't get it maybe some of my fellow Canuckleheads will help): 1. Polar Sea and/or Manhattan 2. Dammit, Les, you pissed on my rug! 3. Manicouagan Fu**-You Call (this one's too easy) *wondering how many people are going to answer one of these or all three?* I have ***NO*** idea what this is!!! How long before you give us the answers I'd love to know also... that was a tricky question.	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-22 13:11:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (Krikit @ Jan 22 2008, 12:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ohhh, Mandi But I sent you away Ohhh, Mandi I almost named my daugher Mandi. But my husband nixed that and now she's called Shannon. If I had a nickel for every time someone has sung that song to me... my husband used to say "you came and you gave without taking" It's just Mandi... not Amanda. I like it. Shannon is pretty. I've never met a Shannon I didn't like.	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-22 12:55:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (trailmix @ Jan 22 2008, 12:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (rhymeswithcandi @ Jan 22 2008, 09:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (liz_legend @ Aug 7 2007, 07:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> you can be an honorary-canuck an OT refugee, if you will =) Hahaha "OT refugee" rhymeswithcandi - we suggest you come for coffee in the Canada OT forum and every time you post no one is here! I'm concerned you will be getting paranoid thinking you are killing the thread each time! Anyway, what rhymes with candi? Mandy, Sandy, memimomandy - candi? Thank you for being concerned... makes me feel important I was busy debating in AOS I think I'm going to have to agree to disagree at this point Haha... Mandi rhymes with Candi	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-22 12:37:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	QUOTE (liz_legend @ Aug 7 2007, 07:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> you can be an honorary-canuck an OT refugee, if you will =) Hahaha "OT refugee"	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-22 11:18:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	I love Tim Hortons!	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-21 17:02:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Haha... My husband and I play geography games too! I totally kick his but at American geography and he hates it. I can name them all alphabetically. We've both travelled a lot so we play this game where one of us names a city and the other has to say which country it's in. Sounds kinda easy until you get into like African and former Soviet countries - those ones are tricky We're fun people too lol	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-21 16:17:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	Hi everyone! Haha... yea trailmix that map did show the US as being a little bigger than it is. My husband and I have a world map shower curtain and he's proud of the fact that he can name all the provinces and territories. PEI isn't on it though (weird) Re Airmiles - my husband has a rewards VISA card and he gets airmiles when he uses that card... and it's true, there are a lot of great rewards cards in the states. I rushed down to meet the postman this morning (like I do every day) but nothing from my friends at USCIS... I feel so rejected	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-21 15:56:00
Canada	Off Topic Forum...	great coffee! anyone here?	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-20 15:14:00
Canada	The Vent	QUOTE (Emancipation @ Jan 23 2008, 02:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (rhymeswithcandi @ Jan 23 2008, 02:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have a custom-made wedding band with 4 little diamonds set into it and one larger one. It always flips around so the diamonds aren't lined up with the engagement ring so I've been meaning to have em fused together. Well, the other day I looked down at my finger and the larger diamond was GONE! Just a big hole where it used to be. I'm SO upset every time I look at my finger now... I could just cry. I'm so sorry that happened too... ugh.. that is terrible.. What is it with diamonds going missing anyway?? My mother lost an heirloom ring that was a combo of her diamond that my dad gave her (he's deceased), a diamond that was my grandmother's (given to her by her 1st husband that was shot down of germany).. she changed from a summer purse to a winter one and forgot the ring in one of the pockets and threw the summer purse away.. I took my old engagement ring from my 1st marriage and had it re-set in a necklace.. then I promptly lost it in the washing machine.. i felt sick for about 20 minutes.. then i realized who gave it to me.. UGH.. That is horrible about your mother's ring. That would make me so sick... Sounds like it was such a special ring... gosh The diamonds in my band were actually out of my mom's old wedding ring from my dad (they're divorced now) so I'm a little sad about that part too. It was funny 'cause when my mom saw the band she noticed that my engagement diamond is twice the size as the diamond in my band (the one I lost) and she said "Man your father was cheap" haha. maybe the diamond had a bad energy or something. hmmm	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-23 15:08:00
Canada	The Vent	I have a custom-made wedding band with 4 little diamonds set into it and one larger one. It always flips around so the diamonds aren't lined up with the engagement ring so I've been meaning to have em fused together. Well, the other day I looked down at my finger and the larger diamond was GONE! Just a big hole where it used to be. I'm SO upset every time I look at my finger now... I could just cry.	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-23 14:27:00
Canada	The Vent	QUOTE (Sprailenes @ Jan 23 2008, 12:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yea his grandma doesn't even live here she just comes over when she feels like it. I live with my in-laws and its been trying at times, but it has been getting better. But this woman is such a ###### at times. She has made so many low blow comments about me. I think its about time I start saying things back to her. That is SO horrible. I'm sorry. I don't know what I would do. I'm lucky, my in-laws are great.	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-23 14:23:00
Canada	Grocery Items Unavailable in the US	QUOTE (plasticcastle @ Feb 11 2008, 06:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> so there were some things that i knew about ketchup chips (my 2 bestfriends promised to take care of that) pizza pops but dill pickle chips? for real? this is just getting painfull I really MISS dill pickle chips.	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-02-12 05:33:00
Canada	Grocery Items Unavailable in the US	QUOTE (kimmbo @ Jan 22 2008, 03:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Heres my list of things that I have to take "home" to the US to my friends and family every time my husband (Canadian) and I go visit: Lays Fries and Gravy Chips ThinAddictives Licks Guk Sauce Kernels Ketchup Popcorn Seasoning Wink Diet Orange Crush Heres some things on my husbands list to take when we move: Strubs Pickles (I prefer Vlasic) MacIntosh Toffee Red Rose tea Wine Gums (and Wunderbars and Passion Flakies which you already have on your list) Oh I forgot about Licks!! One more thing: Dill Pickle chips and Ketchup chips are very hard to find here.	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-22 16:17:00
Canada	Grocery Items Unavailable in the US	QUOTE (Krikit @ Jan 22 2008, 02:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have taken the liberty of creating a spreadsheet detailing a list of Canadian products unavailable in the US and have added comparables where I could. This list was compiled using input from the Heinz Ketchup thread, as well as from my own experience. Please feel free to let me know of any additions or amendments, as this is a work in progress. Grocery Items Spreadsheet What a great idea! Nathan's hot dogs are my new favourite! Love them. You can't get Cheez Whiz here? What about real maple syrup? My mom always sends my husband those giant jugs of real Canadian maple syrup. It's like gold to him. Also, the Safeway here has real Canadian back bacon and Canadian peameal bacon. I actually noticed that almost all of the bacon products they sell are from Canada. Harris Teeter here has a good Canadian bacon selection also. Smarties is another one to add - Smarties here aren't the chocolate candies like we get in Canada and the UK. Americans call those sour little candies that come in a roll (like Rockets) Smarties. Aero is another chocolate bar that you can't get here - I learned that when my husband asked me what kind of chocolate bar I wanted from the store. I said "Aero" and he said "Huh?"	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-22 15:07:00
Canada	What's For Dinner?	I'm making chicken fried rice because it's ALL I have ingredients for. I need to go grocery shopping in a HUGE way.	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-03-06 11:53:00
Canada	What's For Dinner?	QUOTE (MissStacey @ Mar 5 2008, 08:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Tomorrow I am going to try a chicken fricassee crock pot recipe that my mother in law gave me. Mel loves chicken fricassee. I have never tried it. I love saying "fricassee" QUOTE (Crikey! @ Mar 6 2008, 09:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Last night we went to Panera Bread. I had soup, he had soup and salad. We had originally planned to have Indian but late yesterday I felt like I got hit by a ton of bricks. Lay down for a quick nap and woke up with a terrible headache and very nauseated and shivering. I think I'm doing better now. I hope. I hope you're doing better too! That sounds yukky. Feel better and take care of you!	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-03-06 09:15:00
Canada	What's For Dinner?	QUOTE (trailmix @ Feb 11 2008, 11:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Crikey! @ Feb 10 2008, 05:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (trailmix @ Feb 10 2008, 05:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I bought a chicken! However tonight we are going to have beef curry - tomorrow roasted lemon chicken! Mmmmmmm, I LOVE curry. I'm making roast lemon chicken right now. I've had to delay the process, somewhat, because my husband came home from work then went right back out (after taking some business calls) to work out. So now everything is on hold until he comes home. We are having garlic lemon roast chicken, roast potatoes, carrots and turnip, and brussel sprouts. Yum. I think it's funny that we are both making lemon chicken, in fact I don't think I have ever made lemon chicken, well not that I can remember, however when we were at the store I thought of it and skipped back to produce to grab a lemon ! BTW, the lemon was 79 cents - seems a bit pricey for 1 lemon. Oh and we bought some florida citrus (2 oranges) - helping the florida economy from our own neighbourhood Sounds yummy! I just took chicken out of the freezer so it's chicken for us as well Haven't decided what to do with it though. I'm thinking chicken cordon bleu with a salad. Last night I made liver. Sound really gross I know. But I fry it with bacon, onions and mushrooms in white wine and then serve it on a bed of spinach leaves. It's my husband's favorite (one of them). I got the idea from a really amazing French Bistro I used to go to when I lived in Malta and everyone I've made it for loves it. I guess you might have to like liver to enjoy it but...	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-02-11 11:47:00
Canada	What's For Dinner?	QUOTE (Crikey! @ Feb 10 2008, 02:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (trailmix @ Feb 10 2008, 01:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Crikey! @ Feb 10 2008, 06:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think I'll make a roast chicken dinner today. I feel the need for some comfort food. You know, I'm just thinking, I can't remember the last time I made roasted chicken, I think it's because we only ever eat the chicken breasts. Hmm, if they have some non-frozen chickens at the store I think we might just have this too!! We're breast people too. I either make chicken noodle soup with the leftovers, or use them in Chiang Mai soup or Butter Chicken. Mmmmm. Is Chiang Mai soup the same as tom yom?	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-02-11 11:42:00
Canada	What's For Dinner?	QUOTE (Krikit @ Feb 6 2008, 08:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Carlawarla @ Feb 6 2008, 08:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm always starved after reading this thread... I know. I just went and put on a pot of coffee and will heat up a cranberry blueberry bran muffin. I wasn't hungry at all until now. ME too lol	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-02-06 08:18:00
Canada	What's For Dinner?	QUOTE (trailmix @ Jan 23 2008, 01:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Krikit @ Jan 23 2008, 11:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (trailmix @ Jan 23 2008, 01:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Heyyy let's all go to A&W, foods more fun at A&W - we'll have a mug of root beer or maybe two or three - pick the perfect size from the burger familyyy Hey! let's all go to A&W - I can taste it now can't youuuu, hop in the car, come as you are to A and Wuuuuuu. Well, at least it's not "sad eyes, turn the other way". I was thinking that while typing it, 'at least it's better than IR5's song' - which is horrible - and I was singing Mandy on and off all day yesterday but I am blocking out sad eyes - egadsssss Haha! Mandy... that song is a killer - gets stuck in your head forever! QUOTE (MarilynP @ Jan 23 2008, 01:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (autumnchik @ Jan 23 2008, 10:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> We're having leftovers from last night's supper ... I made crockpot Beef Stroganoff, got it from the Off Topic recipe thread, I think was contributed by Marilyn. It was YUMMY!!!! the first time I made that it was soo hard to save some for hubby... I have a recipe for crock-pot sweet and sour pork that is really good too... I need to get a crock-pot.	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-23 13:56:00
Canada	What's For Dinner?	QUOTE (Krikit @ Jan 23 2008, 10:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (rhymeswithcandi @ Jan 23 2008, 10:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I LOVE cooking. My husband takes pictures of the dinners I make on his iPhone. Is that weird? lol Awww. That's so cute! LOL I have to admit that I'm not that terribly into Mexican food. (Though those tostados do sound good.) My husband and my children love it, though, so I've begun to try things other than quesadillas or corn chips and salsa. I even managed to eat part of a taco salad last week, and I do like chili sometimes. I think it's the fact that I don't really like my food touching each other. Cream of leek and asparagus soup sounds good. I made an excellent beef and mushroom soup last night. My husband complained that I didn't make enough. I used to be like that with the foods touching each other... had to have nice neat little piles of food. I'm just getting into Mexican food. My husband is from California and it's pretty big there... I cheated with the soup and added canned cream of mushroom soup. I LOVE soup. Beef and mushroom!? That sounds really yummy.	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-23 13:52:00
Canada	What's For Dinner?	Last night I made cream of leek and asparagus soup. I didn't love it but my husband did. I'm making lamb too Krikit.. Tonight I'm making Lamb stew! I put sweet potatoes in it. After reading all this about cornbread I think I'm gonna make some of that too - just bought cornmeal the other day to make Tamales but found out I need Masa. Tamales tomorrow night - I have to call my MIL in Cali to get her to coach me through it. I've never made them before. I LOVE cooking. My husband takes pictures of the dinners I make on his iPhone. Is that weird? lol Those Tostadas sound goood!	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-01-23 10:49:00
Canada	Cams Across Ontario	QUOTE (Krikit @ Feb 1 2008, 04:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (trailmix @ Feb 1 2008, 02:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Krikit @ Feb 1 2008, 12:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> "I catapulted a small portion of our grass and some perennials into the middle of our lawn. I must go out and try to cover up the evidence later." Are you going to the beach this weekend krikit, which one!? I know! I laughed at that too. We used to work together. We had so much fun. When I left, she took early retirement. Said she went from looking forward to going into work each day to hating going into work each day. (She used to report to me.) When she and her husband came to visit last September her husband gave me heck for the loss of income. lol Anyhooooo..... I digress. Hubby had asked me to go to the beach for the weekend. Sarasota or Bradenton area (Siesta Key/Anna Maria Island). At first I said yes, but then I changed my mind. We've just gotten back and I'm still catching up on everything that was neglected and/or accumulated while we had our visitors. It's our second first wedding anniversary tomorrow. (Yes, Groundhog Day.) So I think he was trying to make up for forgetting our first first wedding anniversary. But I still have time to change my mind back. It's a woman's prerogative, you know. This Ontario cam site is great! I love being able to see home. I don't miss shoveling - that WAS a funny account of "catapulting" the grass lol The bright side is pretty bright - the option to beach is a good one to have Happy second first anniversary!	rhymeswithcandi	Female	Canada	2008-02-02 11:44:00